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band, One Ok Rock. It was released on March 6, 2013 and reached second place on the

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weekly chart. This album brought One Ok Rock to worldwide popularity, especially after the first single, "

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", was selected as official soundtrack in the live action adaptation of ''Rurouni Kenshin''. The song peaked at number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Japan Hot 100 and stayed for 45 weeks. The next single, " Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps", was featured on the '' DmC: Devil May Cry'' ("Nothing Helps") game and used for

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TV commercials ("Deeper Deeper"). A DVD special bundled with the album released for limited pre-order only, consists of an acoustic performance in the studio of "The Beginning" and "The Same As...". The song "The Beginning" can be heard in the 2012 film ''

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''. "Clock Strikes" was featured in the

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game '' Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin!''. The song "Be The Light" was used in the animated film ''

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'', starring

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and Haruma Miura.

Background and development

After their first two nights live in

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, One Ok Rock stated that they "wanted to begin recording a new album." Songs like "The Beginning" and "Clock Strikes", had been made long before '' Zankyo Reference'' was released. In mid-2012, they were asked to make a song for a new live adaption of the popular

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''. The single "The Beginning" was used for the live adaption movie.

Promotion

One Ok Rock held their first national arena tour in 2013, engaged more than 100,000 audiences, six cities and 11 days, started from 11 May to 6 June 2013. They recorded 22 songs from their second day in Yokohama Arena released on

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, entitled ''Jinsei×Kimi= (人生×君=) Tour Live&Film'', together with a one-hour documentation of the tour. Later the band conducted their first world tour, consisting of concerts in 11 countries of Asia and Europe from October to December. Additional dates were added for Los Angeles and New York in early 2015. In the spring of 2014, they participated in

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, successfully reaching new audiences abroad.

Track listing

Notes : There are seven kinds of music videos uploaded on the band's Official

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including English subtitles, Japanese subtitles, French subtitles, Chinese subtitles, Spanish subtitles, Portuguese subtitles, and no subtitles. The contents are the same in all versions. : The song was made for their friend, Kei Goto (also known as K), vocalist of

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who died in the morning of December 30, 2012 due to acute

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. : Pronounced ''rokku'' (ロック, "Rock"), the track's name is an answer to the album title: ''"Life Times Me Equals Rock"''. The song title is a goroawase.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the

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of ''Jinsei×Boku=''. One Ok Rock * Takahiro "Taka" Moriuchi —

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* Toru Yamashita —

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* Ryota Kohama —

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* Tomoya Kanki —

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Additional musicians * Makoto Minagawa —

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(4, 6, 9, 10) * Kiyohide Ura — piano (13) * Mio Okamura — 1st

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(2) * Shohei Yoshida — 2nd violin (2) * Mikiyo Kikuchi —

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(2) * Robin Dupuy —

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(2) * Yoshinobu Takeshita — contrabass (2} * Ayano Kasahara — cello (9) * Mari Masumoto — cello (9) Design * Kazuaki Seki — art direction * Daichi Shiono — design Production * Akkin — programming (1), strings arrangement (2, 9) * Kenichi Arai —

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* Tomoki Kagami — recording, engineering * John Feldmann — mixing (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 10–12) * Tommy English — mixing (1–3, 5, 7, 8, 10–12) * Tue Madsen — mixing (4, 9, 13) *

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— mixing (6) * Ryota Hattanda — assistant * Yusuke Watanabe — assistant * Yuji Nakamura — assistant * Kimihiro Nakase — assistant * Naoki Iwata — assistant *

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— mastering * Kazutaka Minemori — guitar and bass technician * Yoshiro "Masuo" Arimatsu — drum technician * Jamil — English translations

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Certifications

Accolades

References

External links

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One Ok Rock
discography {{DEFAULTSORT:JinseixBoku 2013 albums One Ok Rock albums A-Sketch albums Alternative rock albums by Japanese artists